from the pen of Merit

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Father, do you love me?Of course, I do my youngest. My day-and-night.
Do you really?Yes, yes I do. You know I cannot lie to you, Flame-eye
Prove it to me. Send me down a joyful man, a man worthy of me. Continue reading →

A woman frantically spins a crystal in the light from the window making rainbows swirl around the room. “Iris, storm-footed and golden winged, you who nursed my child when I could not, hear me. My boy has been taken from his cradle by Apollon, furious to behold. Tell his father! Bring my baby back!”

A tattered scroll was unearthed in the bowels of a local museum today. It looks to be a report:

“My name is Xanthe of what is known to outsiders as the Amazon Nation. Nothing is dearer to me than my sisters. I would fight to the death for anyone of them but I hold [illegible] dearer than all the rest. Only she could have convinced me to go so far from camp without my weapons and armor. She wanted to show me something… Continue reading →